For months now, privately, we’ve been searching for a meaningful definition of the word “equity.” We’ve consulted linguists, dusted off moldering reference books, we scoured the four corners of God’s own internet, all in an effort to figure out what it means. We’ve done this, not for pleasure, but because it’s our duty as a news organization. Equity is now the organizing principle of the United States of America.
On the very day he was inaugurated, joe-biden”>Joe Biden<. Earlier today, Lightfoot released a two-page manifesto defining equity. “Equity and inclusion are the north stars of this administration,” Lightfoot explained. And then she got specific about it.
LIGHTFOOT SLAMS ‘OVERWHELMING WHITENESS’ OF CHICAGO PRESS, DEFENDS ONLY SPEAKING TO REPORTERS OF COLOR
“On the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as Mayor of this great City, I will be exclusively providing one-on-one interviews with journalists of color.” In the name of equity, Lori Lightfoot is refusing to grant interviews to White people.
Lightfoot took pains to explain that she doesn’t mean any of this personally. In fact, she conceded that some of the White reporters who cover city hall in chicago”>Chicago<
But of course, no one’s said much at all about what Lori Lightfoot said in her manifesto. Even Chicago reporters — some of whom can no longer do their jobs, purely because of how they were born — offered only tepid complaints. Like this person from NBC.
MARY ANN AHERN, NBC REPORTER: Another reporter called and said “Hey, I’m hearing they’re only talking to black and brown journalists.” I said “What?” It didn’t even sound real. So I reached out to the communications director Kate Lefurgy and she texted me back and said “Yeah, that’s true.”…She said White reporters have been in the room for the majority of the year and it’s time to hear from other people.
That’s confusion, not outrage. “Can it be real?” But there’s nothing confusing about who Lori Lightfoot is. Lori Lightfoot is a dangerous bigot. She’s hurting other people because of their race. That’s the crime, but it’s the one thing nobody wants to say out loud. Here’s the response from a reporter at the Chicago Tribune.
“I am a Latino reporter whose interview request was granted for today. However, I asked the mayor’s office to lift its condition on others, and when they said no, we respectfully canceled. Politicians don’t get to choose who covers them.”
Talk about missing the point completely. Of course, politicians can choose who they talk to. All of us have that right, thank God. What politicians can’t do under any circumstance is attack an entire group of citizens on the basis of their skin color.
Again, to restate the obvious, that is racism. It’s immoral. It is also illegal under countless state and federal laws. We’re not supposed to allow behavior like that from the government. We’re all equal in the eyes of the law. We’re all citizens. We’ve got an entire granite monument on the National Mall in Washington promising that we will never behave that way again, we will never allow it. But, because we’ve embraced equity, we’re not just allowing it, we’re encouraging it.
Meanwhile, how’s Chicago? The city of Chicago under Lori Lightfoot continues to crumble. Murders last year jumped 50 percent. Hundreds more dead, many of them young people and children, most of them Black. Is that social justice? No, it’s not. That’s nobody’s definition of social justice.
Not surprisingly, Lori Lightfoot doesn’t want to talk about it. There are 50 members of the Chicago city council. One of them, an alderman called Raymond Lopez, has repeatedly pressed Lightfoot to explain what she’s doing to the city. Lopez isn’t a right-winger. He’s a Democrat. He represents the 15th ward, which is overwhelmingly non-White, and in some places, impoverished.
But, Raymond Lopez cares about his constituents, so in January, he raised an obvious point with the mayor: maybe crime is up in Chicago because Chicago isn’t enforcing federal law. How did Lori Lightfoot respond to this? She called him a racist.
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LORI LIGHTFOOT: Being an immigrant or a refugee is not a crime … Alderman Napolitano and Alderman Ray Lopez I just have to say, shame on you … Spirited debate, which is at the heart of our democracy, is not the same as using racist tropes and xenophobic rhetoric to promote yourself on the backs of others and demonize them.
Calling on a federal official to follow the law is now a racist trope.
This article is adapted from Tucker Carlson’s opening commentary on the May 19, 2021, edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
